Stax has released a new compliance rule called EC2 instances should not be too old, allowing customers to continuously monitor their EC2 instances’ age based on their organizations requirements. This rule helps align with best practices to ensure the regularly updating, patching and restarting of EC2 instances.

This rule evaluates whether an EC2 instance’s launch time exceeds the specified number of days (Instance Age parameter). The default Instance Age parameter is set to 60 days if no value is specified.

To add any of this new rules to your Organization Rule Bundle, head to the Rules Catalog page.